Printer Phone Mast

Julian Oliver, a native of New Zealand, has taken an HP Laserjet 1320 and squeezed a Raspberry Pi 3 and a BladeRF x40 software-defined radio inside. He’s then written the necessary software for it to identify nearby mobile phones and send them SMS messages and capture the IMEI numbers. The printer even still works! Read more about this slightly creepy, intrusive project over at The Register.

Plot with the SenseHAT

There’s an air pressure sensor on the SenseHAT which you can access via Python. A coder over at BlogMyWiki has used taken these readings and then used the matplotlib library to create a graph of the results. It’s a nice, clear example of the kind of thing you can do when you use software packages together to create something that is more than the sum of its parts. Take a look here.